"We are so good at so many things in this country - but for too long the mirage of growth based on property speculation and financial gambling has hidden the harder virtues of making things productively.
He wasn't just training us in karate; he was trying to give us a gift -- the gift of discipline, of hard work, virtue and honor.
What's more, the Murano remains surefooted and predictable in hard maneuvers, virtues that have a lot to do with the monster tires and the multitude of computerized stability features that automatically apportion power to the left and right and to the front and rear.
It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues– self-restraint.
Not so long ago millions of Americans lived their lives in the belief that with optimism, hard work and virtue, anyone, no matter how lowly his origins, could make good in the land of the free.
Finally, to these influences must be added that of American social experience in the 19th century: the rapid expansion of industry and trade and a popular optimism, with its roots in Puritan theology, holding that hard work and virtue are bound to be rewarded.
In contrast, toothpaste has great potential to harm the dental hard tissues by virtue of its degree of abrasivity.
And in hard-cash politics, virtue is rarely its own reward.
The question, though, is whether her indisputable virtues — hard work, intellectual acuity, a command of policy — are ideally suited for the White House.
The same might have been said of an issue about which he was most enthusiastic - the hard-nosed, commercial virtue of arms exports; he inadvertently triggered a raging reaction which provides the fuel for discussion of "moral" foreign policy.
